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Fairy Duster
Taken in July 2010 at Bengaluru.
Calliandra haematocephala. Powder-puff, Fairy Duster, a sub-tropical plant the family, native to India, Mexico, Madagascar, South America and the United States, is grown as a hedge or shrub in the landscape for its powder-puff-type flowers which are very attractive to hummingbirds, bees and butterflies. Derived from the Greek words "kallos" (beauty) and "andros" (stamens), flowers of Calliandra can breathe life into any dormant landscapes and are like miniature pink fireworks detonating in a sea of deep-green leaves.
Fairy Duster Essence
http://www.desert-alchemy.com - find an essence from 119 individual flower essence that works for you!
The essence of this flower can be used when one has inflated expectations or are in the process of building castles in the air. It is excellent for nervous excitability and over-reactivity to stimuli. They are safe, effective, and with lasting effects, the flower essences is a powerful support for modern healing.
- balances the tendency to swing back and forth from high to low energy states;
- emotions not necessarily being released, but becoming obsolete and no longer having power over you;
- enables you to handle greater intensities of energy and stimulation without disruption;
- groundedness and alignment of the mental, emotional and etheric levels;
- seeing new ways;
- sensitive to what is happening around you and interacting with your environment while remaining balanced mentally and open in heart;
- soothes and stabilizes the nervous system and the flow of energies through the nervous system.
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Rock Star
Heart's on fire
Taken in March 2010 in Chennai.
Anthurium andraeanum, Flamingo lily, Tail flower, Painter's palette, Boy Flower, Oil Cloth flower.
Anthurium, pronounced an-THOO-ree-um, are once-seen, never-forgotten flowers. Their unmistakable glossy heart-shaped bright red flower bract (which gives them their popular name of painter's palette) surrounds the true flowers, which are in the form of a spike (or spathe) at the centre. The flowers contain an anguine curved or straight cop (spadix) that sticks up from a big flamboyant and slightly creasy bract like a caudicle. They come in shades of reds, pinks, white, lilac, green and chocolate brown. http://www.flowersofindia.net/
This beauty is very poisonous and the general symptoms of poisoning are blistering, dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing), hoarseness.
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Christ Plant
Taken in Bangalore in July 2010.
Euphorbia milii, Crown of Thorns, Christ Plant is a woody, succulent species of Euphorbia native to Madagascar. The species name commemorates Baron Milius, once governor of Réunion, who introduced the species to France in 1821. It is suspected that the species was introduced to the Middle East in ancient times, and legend associates it with the crown of thorns worn by Jesus.
Check out my photos of the same plant, different colour.
Pink
Yellow
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Tubular Spectacle
Taken in July 2010 at Bangalore and Nellore.
Russelia equisetiformis, the Firecracker Plant inspired by the scarlet, long, tubular flowers which resemble red colored firecrackers, so common in India. Also called, coral plant, it is a multi-branched subshrub with slender, rushlike stems that are angled with ridges and leaves that are reduced to little more than small scales. The wiry branches start out erect then fall over to cascade down in lengths as long as 4 ft. Source
What a contrast this plant with tubular flowers makes with the tubular bamboo!
Bamboo, the ecological saviour!
- Bamboo is a great plant for individuals concern with a green environment. There are some 1500 different species that are native to every continent except Europe.
- Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on this planet. It has been recorded growing at an amazing 47.6 inches in a 24 hour period.
- Bamboo is a crucial element in the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A grove of bamboo release 35% more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees. Because of this, planting bamboo is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint and help fight global warming.
- Bamboo is a viable replacement for wood. It can be harvest in 3-5 years versus 10-20 for most softwoods. It can out yield pine 6 to 1 in biomass production. It is also one of the strongest building materials with a tensile strength of 28,000 psi. To help give you an idea how much this is, mild steel measures 23,000 psi.
- It is a great soil conservation tool. It greatly reduces erosion with a sum of stem flow rate and canopy intercept of 25%. This dramatically reduces rain run-off, preventing massive soil erosion and making it very earth friendly.
- Bamboo can be eaten (new shoots), made into fiber for clothing, it can be used in concrete reinforcement, in can provide great livestock feed with the foliage being up to 22% protein, it can be machined into numerous forms of lumber, etc. It might be easier to compile a list of what bamboo cannot be used for than what it is used for.
- Bamboo can also tolerate extreme conditions that most plants cannot. It was actually the first plant to re-green after the atomic blast in Hiroshima in 1945. Source
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Photonastic love
Taken in July 2010, in Bangalore.
Oxalis triangularis, False or Purple Shamrock or the Love Plant. It is lovely as an indoor plants but does need sunlight. It has uniquely colored leaves of deep maroon-purple and unusual trifoliolate foliage. Small clusters of light pink to lavender flowers borne above the lovely foliage display a wonderful contrast too. The leaves move in response to the levels of light. Watch it in action. This type of movement due to sensitivity to light is called Photonasty.
They had grown it in a wonderful manner. The rich foliage of Crape Jasmine with its white windmill like flowers provided a perfect background to the vividly coloured Shamrock. All this was around a potato tree.
The effect was spectacular!
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Every Bud has her Day
Taken in June 2010, in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
The bud with all its magic wrapped up tight in a green suitcase looks at the flower in a pink ballroom gown, swirling and dancing in the breeze, and she wants grow up in a hurry. She too wants to flirt with the birds and the bees, and giggle naughtily at the flattering compliments on every lip. She practices her moves and imagines herself in the brown and green ballroom, her arms wrapped around a handsome prince. I hope she does not know she will soon lies in the garbage dump next to the very vine that sprouted out of Cinderella's pumpkin. Let her enjoy her little life with it's magic being the only thing that propels her, let not the shadow of her imminent death ruin the magic of life.
the bud packed
tight with its miracle swayed
stiffly on breaths
of air, moved
as though impelled
by stirrings within itself.
Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980), U.S. poet. The Night-blooming Cereus (l. 9–14).
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Traffic Stopper
Taken on June 19, 2010 at Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Hymenocallis littoralis or the Beach Spider Lily blooms from mid-summer to late autumn with white flowers which are large, white and tantalizing-fragrant vanilla scented. A sure traffic stopper in any garden! Spider lilies are perfect around water features in the landscape.
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Morning Glory
September Blog Carnival: Say it with flowers na!
Pretty Vine
Tropical Beauty
Taken on 19 June, 2010 at Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Hibiscus sp. A very common flower that adds beauty to the already beautiful landscape of Kerala and the Southern states. It has many medicinal properties and is an extremely useful plant otherwise too.
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Taken on 19 June 2010 at Bengaluru
Plumeria alba or White Plumeria, White Frangipani or Champa
Frangipani is well-known for its intensely fragrant, lovely, spiral-shaped blooms which appear at branch tips. The tree itself is rather unusual in appearance.Plumeria flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar, and simply dupe their pollinators. The moths inadvertently pollinate them by transferring pollen from flower to flower in their fruitless search for nectar. In modern Polynesian culture, it can be worn by women to indicate their relationship status - over the right ear if seeking a relationship, and over the left if taken. Source- Wikipedia
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Daisy Fleabane
Taken on 19th June, 2010, at Bengaluru.
Erigeron sp also called Daisy Fleabane.
The name Erigeron is derived from the Greek (eri = early; geron = old man) and refers to the appearance of the white hairs of the fruit.
Fleabane's common name reflects its use as a bug repellant. In fact, starlings line their nests with fleabane to keep mites away. People once mixed it with bedstraw to keep bugs out of their mattresses. It's toxic to mollusks and helps prevent fungus infections in strawberry plants. Because it repels insects, it can be used magically to ward off evil spirits. Despite its pesticidal qualities, butterflies love it. But don't plant fleabane where ruminants like cows and goats can get at it - it's toxic for them. Source
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Do not eat this potato!
Say it with Flowers
Mr. and Mrs. Twosome Daisy
Down to Earth
